Category: News

Serena Blaiz reports on bills to support and oppose, clean water activism, the OKC “election” and shares some musical parodies with political messages. Just another week in a city and state failed by its oligarchic rulers. https://archive.org/download/leftinok26/leftinok26.mp3 Links: Michael Brooks-Jimenez’ No Budget, No Pay petition Mark Davies: Oklahoma, Step Beyond Fossil Fuel Waterkeepers: Coal Ash Pollution hearing | Fact Sheet… Continue reading "Left in Oklahoma Podcast Episode 26, February 12, 2018"

Serena Blaiz ends a month hiatus by looking at a slurry of state of the ___ speeches. State of the Union terror alert, State of the State BS, State of the City elitism. Thankfully Bob Waldrop provides a solid alternative message about the real state/history of OKC and Rena expounds on the state of the resistance. Other news items and upcoming events.

Dr. Scott Carter was one of the speakers at the “Tax Bill Blowback Rally” in Oklahoma City on Saturday December 9. His remarks were recorded to video by the Green Country chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, on whose behalf he spoke. He is also an associate professor of economics at the University of Tulsa. Carter was kind enough… Continue reading "WATCH: Scott Carter on Economic Democracy (with transcript)"

Concerned individuals are intervening on behalf of all Oklahomans to ensure First Amendment rights are no longer violated. Individuals of many different backgrounds have come together to expose the corruptions, abuses of power, the destruction of the environment, and the trampling of human rights inflicted upon us by our elected officials and the companies they are beholden to. With the… Continue reading "Oklahoma Water Protectors to plant sacred tobacco in path of Diamond Pipeline"

A debate among the four candidates for chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party – Anna Langthorn, Sarah Baker, Mike Workman, and Mark Henricksen. The forum was hosted by the Oklahoma County Democratic Party and took place in Oklahoma City on May 8, 2017. https://archive.org/download/201705080121280x856/20170508Odp-chair-debate-okc.mp3

Father John Dear’s keynote address to the 26th Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, which took place on May 4 in OKC. Produced on behalf of the Oklahoma Citizen Public Affairs Network. https://archive.org/download/ocpan20170504-okcadp-john-dear/ocpan20170504-okcadp-john-dear.mp3

Recording of a press conference organized by the grassroots Stop Plains All American Pipeline to announce plans for actions to stop further construction of the Diamond Pipeline by the Plains All American Company. https://archive.org/download/20170130stopdiamondpipeline/20170130stopdiamondpipeline.mp3 Recorded by Serena Blaiz of Pointing Left Media for the Oklahoma Citizen Public Affairs Network. Press conference by a grassroots activist group, Stop Plains All American Pipeline, held… Continue reading "Native peoples and allies vow to stop pipeline construction in Oklahoma"